#boxthorn

[faguscarolinensis]

Serissa japonica / Snowrose at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[tommysandwich]

((So, you want adult versions of the two sets of baby twins? Well, you’re in luck!

We have Cheese Slice the Comedian (yay, I thought up a cutie mark for him!), Cream Cheese the Baker, Wildflower the Photographer, and Dr. Boxthorn the Scientist. Some fine specimens of pony that their parents are very proud of.))

[xslightphotography]

Coastal Spike #australia #jasonwhittle #xslightphotography #viewbug #gettyimage #500px #southaustralia #weed #boxthorn #fotolia #eyrepeninsula #seascape (at Port Lincoln, South Australia)

[tommysandwich]

Just a random Wildflower and Boxthorn pic.

[tommysandwich]

((First off, I tried my hand at drawing the canon CheesePie kid, Li’l Cheese. I’m really happy with how she turned out, especially since trying to recreate that cutie mark was a pain! Regardless, she’s having fun being a bouncy leader. 

Okay, so, about those two other ponies with Li’l Cheese...

I could have left the Flormato family alone, just let them stay at six while canon gives them a new cousin and bumps the CheesePie family up to seven (not counting parents). Leave it at a baker’s dozen of Sandwich offspring from two couples. 

But then, two evil thoughts came to my mind. One, “I should totally come up with a pony based on that Darkwing Duck character I really like”. And two, “wouldn’t it be funny if we struck Tommy and Flora with that ‘twin curse’ that runs through the Sandwiches’ mom’s side of the family?”

I caved to both, and the Flormato family has been bumped up to eight (pfft, like Flora and her siblings), bringing the total of Sandwich Kiddos to fifteen.

I’m making sure they’re the last by making them sort of a bookend; where the CheesePie family had started with twins Pizza Pockets and Fudge Fondue, the Flormato family ended with twins Wildflower and Boxthorn. 

So, some tidbits on the new kids:

They’re a year younger than Li’l Cheese. 

Wildflower’s the older twin, full of spunk, sass, and a keen eye for beauty and detail, which helps her in her photography talent. She’s a social butterfly and loves going on adventures. She’s also got a temper that’s enough to make her peers call her “Wildfire” at times. 

Boxthorn’s the younger one, who’s a shy, awkward dweeb who can be a little too curious and ambitious for his own good, which lead to a talent in science (mainly biology and chemistry), and him being a walking disaster, whether by accident or he’s just feeling a little mischievous toward someone who crossed him. He was kind of inspired by Dr. Bushroot, the aforementioned Darkwing Duck character. 

They’re both hopeless romantics. 

And with that, I’m just gonna let these kids play for now.))

[drhoz]

#2168 - Lycium ferocissimum - African Boxthorn

The specific derives from the Latin ferox meaning fearless or bold, referring to the spininess of the plant.

A tree-sized nightshade, growing up to 5m tall, native to the southern coasts of Africa, but now widespread elsewhere, naturalised in Australia and New Zealand, and a declared noxious weed in the US.

Lycium is most diverse in South America, but there's multiple species in North America and southern Africa, a few scattered across Europe and Asia, and one native to Australia.

Common English names for Lycium include box-thorn, wolfberry, and desert-thorn. Fruit of some have been traded as medical since at least the time of Pliny the Elder, and Lycium barbarum (variously known as Chinese wolfberry, barbary matrimony vine, or red medlar, or the Duke of Argyll's tea tree) produces the edible gogi berry.

Willans Hill, Wagga Wagga, NSW

[evergreenstream]

I love plants so i drew one of my own design inspired by jasmine and boxthorn tree's

[pocketfriend6]

We have amazing fog over our little sea side town today and its making for some pretty awesome photo opportunities!! #fog #foggy #seafog #thorns #boxthorn #artistprofile #myart #artofinstagram #photography #amateurphotography #misty #mist #mistymilkyfoggymoody #phonephotography #moody #thornsandfog